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Focus on subjective violence and easily identifiable flashpoints of conflict misses the boat – only focusing on the background or objective violence can solve root cause – cannot be viewed from the same stand point – the call to act will be strong but responding creates a stop-gap which prevents engaging in criticisms of capital  
Zizek 2008 Slavoj Violence p 1-4
If there is a unifying … distance out of respect towards its victims.

Their humanist project is the greatest excuse for totalitarian violence. In the name of advancing the progress of humanity we are able to exonerate all responsibility for our action onto the will of the Big Other.
Zizek 2009 How to Read Lacan, The Perverse Subject of Politics http://www.lacan.com/essays/?p=186
This passage throws a new light … of inflicting pain on others.

Resisting reliance on economic evaluation is the ultimate ethical responsibility – the current social order guarantees social exclusion on a global scale
Zizek and Daly 2k4 (Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek page 14-16)
For Zizek it is imperative … in an otherwise sound matrix. 

Market based approaches make ecological capitalism impossible – their reliance on economic incentives assures fast warming and extinction
Harriss-White, Professor of Development Studies, Oxford, 2006  Barbara Undermining Sustainable Capitalism: The Market-Driven Politics of Renewable Energy socialistregister.com/socialistregister.com/files/ecolbhweh19Oct06.doc
Fossil energy underwrites and saturates … poor people tread with small ecological footprints.

Capital is the root cause of all of their impacts – you should denounce their simply relationship with violence because the system of capital produces the material reality which makes violence inevitable
Zizek 2008 Slavoj Violence p 11-12
There is an old joke … what matters is the situation of capital.

Demand for urgency is a product of hypocritical outrage meant to extend the privilege of global capitalism – our alternative is to do nothing in the face of the affirmative  
Zizek 2008 Slavoj Violence p 6-8
Let’s think abou t … what causes this violence.

OR

Our alternative is to completely withdraw from the ideology of capital – this is essential to destroy the fetish that allows capital to survive
Johnston, interdisciplinary research fellow in psychoanalysis at Emory University, 2004
Adrian, Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, December v9 i3 p259 page infotrac
Perhaps the absence of a… truth? I choose fetishism").

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The affirmative is a politics of fear – they may win that this method motivates a depoliticized society – but this form of motivation is incompatible with progressive politics
Zizek 2008 Slavoj Violence p 40-41
Today’s predominant mode of … a safe distance from others. 

NEGATIVITY IS A PREREQUISITE
Zizek, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Studies, Ljubljana 1999 Slavoj, The Ticklish Subject, page 153-154
It would therefore be tempting …  newly emerged Master-Signifier.

One should renounce strategies of synthesis – instead radical criticism must assert that contradictions are irreducible – we should celebrate the gap between thesis and anti-thesis not try to fill it with constructed synthesis
Zizek in 2006 Slavoj, The Parallax View, The Symptom Volume 7, spring, http://www.lacan.com/zizparallax.htm
In his formidable Transcritique,…subject with transcendental illusion: 

Concerns for conservatives reaction to the plan is anti-politics.
Dean, Associate Professor of Political Theory at Hobart & William Smith, 2005 Jodi, Zizek against Democracy, jdeanicite.typepad.com/i_cite/files/zizek_against_ democracy_new_version.doc –
Not surprisingly, this superficial … destroy the displaced element

The affirmatives framing of our alternative is completely wrong – the search for concrete success or tying our alternative to impact calculus from current forms of rationality make ethics impossible
Kunkle, Professor of Social Sciences at Vermont College, 2007 Sheila, International Journal of Zizek Studies, 1.3 http://zizekstudies.org/index.php/ijzs/article/view/59/118
In what sense does … “the good” of all mankind.

The idea that capitalism can solve disease is a ploy to prop up the system and ignore that capitalism is the root cause that created the conditions that allows disease to flourish
Howard S. Berliner, Professor of Health Services Management and Policy, Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 95, No. 3 (Autumn, 1980)
Scientific medicine based … in their communities 

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Wont solve Yucca

UCUSA 9 (Union of Concerned Scientists, http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_power/nuclear_power_risk/nuclear_proliferation_and_terrorism/gnep-peis.html

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The GNEP plan …it is located

Feasibility is long-term – Other energy sources solve by then

Wauchope 12 (Noel, researched: Pres-Inst for Energy and Environmental Research,  http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=13726

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As far as … a forgotten dream.

Tech fails

Burke 7 Anthony, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Ontologies of War:  Violence, Existence and Reason

This closed circle of existential and strategic reason generates a number of dangers. Firstly, the emergence of conflict …dysfunctional or chaotic.

No diversion risks now – Plan creates them

UCUSA 9 (Union of Concerned Scientists, http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_power/nuclear_power_risk/nuclear_proliferation_and_terrorism/gnep-peis.html

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Less than 20 …  shown to be largely

Their waste solvency is a misnomer – Most waste materials are universal in the fuel cycle and more production means more waste

Lovins 9 (Amory, Rocky Mountain Inst., http://www.nirs.org/factsheets/lovinsonifretc.pdf)

IFRs are often …this were true.

Fear of terrorism is based on an externalization of anxiety about our own problems onto the outside world—this makes it a self fulfilling prophecy because we need terrorism to exist in order to stabilize our own identity because we are only defined in opposition to terrorism—

Hollander 3—Latin American history and women's studies, Cal State. PhD (Nancy, A Psychoanalytic Perspective on the Politics of Terror,http://www.estadosgerais.org/mundial_rj/download/FLeitor_NHollander_ingl.pdf

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I think that … explore further on.

2) Their impacts are false exagerations that mobilize endless warfare

Ross 9—assoc prof of communication, Wash State. PhD Media law, U Florida. BA in IR, U Wisconsin (Susan, Limning Terror:  Seams in the Discourse of ‘Terrorism’, http://lass.calumet.purdue.edu/cca/gmj/fa09/gmj-fa09-dente-ross.htm

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But what is … home and abroad.

Geologically, we can’t run out of oil.

Stevenson 6/25 (Tim, Dir-Post Oil Solutions and staff-Brattleboro Reformer, “Is Peak Oil Dead?”, http://www.reformer.com/ci_20930567/is-peak-oil-dead?source=most_viewed

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"If we don’t … be largely gone.

Peak oil theory wrong—six reasons

Hossein-zadeh 8 – (Professor of Economics, Drake (Ismael, 6/25, Are they really oil wars?,http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/JF25Dj05.html

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Peak Oil theory is … up several notches.

The fear of economic decline is used to scapegoat enemies of the international order

Neocleous 8 [Mark Neocleous, Prof. of Government @ Brunel, Critique of Security, p95-]

In other words, … security strategy proposed.111

Experts bad  
Abraham 98
What about the ... is national security

Violent images crowd out rational discourse
Der Derian 98